Each year the Barefoot Clan meets the first Sunday of August at the Sequoia Pavilion in the Windber Recreation Park, Windber, Pennsylvania. This blog will include the information from the newsletter: minutes, announcements, obituaries, social news, prize winners, etc., plus items of interest. Editor of the newsletter is Sylvia H. Sonneborn, assisted by Vicki Erdley, Betsy Hawthorne, and others.

We come into this world Barefoot, and we leave it Barefoot too.

We of the Barefoot Reunion Association welcome you to our genealogy site. For over 95 years we have met as a clan, and we have attempted to save some of the history of the Barefoots in Pennsylvania. We begin with James Barefoot and Mary "Polly" (Sleek/Slick) Barefoot in Bedford County, PA. From their large family we have thousands of descendants. One of the blogspots also takes you back to the history of Benjamin Barefoot and Rebecca Ross (James' parents) and also Sgt. William Slick/Sleek (Mary's parents). Along the side of this blogspot, you can click on links to 4 other blogspots. This one is the current one, featuring newsletters from the present. We hope you enjoy learning about our family. Join us for the family reunion the first Sunday of August at noon at the Sequoia Pavilion, Windber Recreation Park, Windber, PA. And yes, we do wear shoes!

About Me

I was born in Johnstown, PA, daughter of Coy and Elizabeth Krise Hott.
After completing high school at Central Cambria, Ebensburg, I attended Shippensburg State College. With a major in English and a minor in mathematics and general science, I was graduated from Shippensburg University. Presently I hold a BS and MEd in English. After graduation from college, I taught at Dallastown Area High School, Dallastown, PA. I stopped for a while when my son Patshal was born. After resuming my career, I taught English in Eastern York High School, Wrightsville, PA, for 35 years. I have only one son and a grandson. Now retired, I worked in public relations and family history. I was married to Patchel Landis from 1966-1980 (div); presently I am married to Jack Sonneborn from 1985-present. We have one cat- Dexter. We enjoy doing family history, and we frequently are presenters at genealogy conferences. I do a newsletter for the Barefoot Family and also a monthly genealogy newsletter with my husband Jack. Jack and I served a part-time mission, starting on 1 November 2009 as Family History Support Consultants for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.